FLEMINGTON — Several fire companies turned out, and the first block of Pennsylvania Avenue was closed to traffic, after a kitchen fire broke out at about 11:20 a.m. today, Feb. 18, in an upstairs apartment at 5-7 Pennsylvania Ave. near the veterans monument.

Flemington Fire Chief Debra Gilmartin said that when the firefighters arrived, the residents had smothered the fire. She said the fire had started after someone left something on the stove.

A charred rug lay on the ground behind the apartment house, and firefighters brought a thermal-imaging camera into the apartment to look for hot spots. An exhaust fan was also brought up to expel the smoke.

Besides the Flemington Fire Department, some of the other first responders were firefighters from Quakertown, High Bridge and Raritan Township, and the Flemington-Raritan rescue squad.